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June 17, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Released as part of a Routledge series of translations of Chinese scholarship, Sun Lijun’s two-volume History of Chinese Animation is the largest work yet published in English on the subject, boasting 572 pages on a century of innovation, tribulation and entertainment in the Chinese cartoon business. The book is unforthcoming about its […]

June 16, 2021 · 1 comment

London, UK, 16th June 2021 ANIME LIMITED BRINGS MAMORU HOSODA AND STUDIO CHIZU’S “BELLE” TO CINEMAS Oscar®-Nominated Director Mamoru Hosoda’s Latest Animated Marvel May Be His Most Stunning Yet Another me. Another reality. We are no longer limited to a single world. Anime Limited, Europe’s premiere distributor for Japanese animation, announced today that it has […]

June 14, 2021 · 0 comments

Asei Kobayashi, who died on 30th May from a heart attack, was an unlikely candidate for musical composer, or actor, or game-show champion…. Pushed by his parents into studying to be a doctor, he transferred without telling them to the department of economics at Keio University, where his classmates included another future composer, Isao Tomita. […]

June 14, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jeannette Ng. Alice in Wonderland remains a towering influence on fantasy, both in English and in Japanese. Europe-inspired fantasy lands can take on new meaning in a Japanese media fascinated with the strange and exotic West, where even Paris and London can sometimes seem like alternate dimensions. Anime adaptations of English children’s classics, often […]

June 11, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. An anime cinema feature film of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth has been announced, entitled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. At last, an anime film with a title that Japanese people will find as hard to pronounce as the rest of us! It’s directed by Kenji Kamiyama, the man […]